Thursday, February 2

Well, suz and I are at the wall with the kids and sleep time. We laid down new laws in the house starting last night, and considering how excited they are about Fencing Lessons, I suspect we'll get some compliance out of them for a while. New bed time... new rules about after the light goes out and ... this morning was the only reason I need to know why this is a good idea. (The morning rituals went well. ;D)

It's one serious fucked up winter around here... it's like +4 today and we're expecting loads of rain and freezing rain tomorrow... which is gonna suck big huge fat... c#$%. My only concern is for Saturday... last ski lesson for the boys this season, although snow-board lessons aren't too far away... sigh.

NOTE: Don't forget... if you're a fan of Survivor... the season preemie is tonight. You can read about who's playing in my [ :: pre-show review :: ].

Second NOTE: AMAZING Race 9 is coming on February 28. Go the CBS [ :: Web Site :: ] on the show to see the line up... :D

wearing
~ green ftls
~ charcoal suit
~ tommy white dress shirt, deep blue tie. ("deep"???)
planning
~ Breezy morning with kids, and stuff... in fact, we even had time to make pancakes... and the munchkins consumed mass quantities...
~ new requirement with client... cool stuff ... means more work (oh the frick'en Irony!!!)
~ tonight? Money Bags at 8:00 to set up our "sell this house" plan...
~ And SURVIVOR !!!!!!!!!!! Season's Premier is tonight. Set yer VCR man...
wishing
~ that meeshsmind manages to turn of that magnet...
~ for ladyfire to make the 24 always overshadow the nasty 6.
~ a little one piece / two piece luck out to jinslat
~ to send a little extra power to lil_sass... just 'cuz.
~ I could smile at dinkydo in person... just for fun.
~ to send a few more hopeful vibes out to no...
~ and to send a little spice out to lalaland!!

ACK!!!! HEIDI... Despite my best intentions... i'm sorry sugar.
I even left myself a note... but I wasn't at my desk to see it and be reminded. :)
(I suck...sorry sugar).

Birthday moment...
Happy Birthday wittleangel... no idea if you'll see this... but sugar, I hope the changes you've made will help you hold happiness close to your heart for the year ahead. I hope all is well and that you find great ways to enjoy your birthday.

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So imagine... you start a business... borrow a little cash to get things started... and find yourself with plenty of growth opportunities... so you borrow a little more. Well before you know it... you get the big contract... and to supply, you're gonna need more up-front, so back to the bank. When you go in for that "big contract" up-front money... are you likely to complain to your banker if they are busy chopping the legs off the person in the line ahead of you? What if... just before they hand you the cash... you watch them line a gang of 13 year old girls up and stamp them all with the word "TOY" and put them in boxes to be mailed away to other countries? You gonna complain? You gonna say shit? Or are you gonna take your money and get back to work?
Lets put that in perspective;
~ America has a legislated debt ceiling of 8.2 trillion dollars. It is literally against the law for congress to approve financial packages that run up the national debt beyond 8.2 trillion. That line is officially behind the Bush admin now... so, essentially... the entire administration is in criminal breach of American Law.
~ and just who do you think has been loaning America all this cash? China ("stamp her head with the word toy"), India (do you realize that raping, and mutilating a young girl is ... basically fine as long as she's from the lower cast?) and others... BUT MOSTLY CHINA. Talk about "OWNED".
~ So... the likelihood that America will ever really complain about human rights abuses in India and China... are approaching nil.
~ and America will continue to outsource application development, transaction services and manufacturing to India and China. No question.
~ and yes, of course, Canada does this too... it's just a question of scale.

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Wanna see something cool?
[ :: Globe and Mail Article :: ] and my comment to the editors is below that... Looking a whole like the popular smarty pants people out there are just catching up with my good ideas. (breaths hot corto breath on his finger nails and buffs 'em a bit on his shirt). :) LOL.

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Hey all you highly-geeked-out C programmers. I want a TSR that I can run on XP that will let me enter an arbitrary time and have the computer begin displaying a countdown at 5 minutes before the "arbitrary time" and when it hits zero... SHUTS DOWN THE PC. Make this for me... and then, we can give it away to parents all over the world. (or does this exist and I'm just not being savy?)

K... time to jet.
remember... survivor. :D :D